Vectors

Sunday, March 25, 2012

John McKernan

MY BROTHER LIVES IN A MANSION

He sleepsOn an alphabet quilt He wakesWhen the sunlightPours into his notebookHe dinesOn a breakfastOf memoryHidden in shadowHe worksWalking slowlyThrough my skullUntil every day is identicalThe last The last The last

John McKernan is now a retired comma herder. He lives--mostly--in West Virgina where he edits ABZ press. His most recent book is a selected poems, Resurrection of the Dust. He has published poems in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review and many other magazines.